Monthly Archive: August 2011

Wilson Tender Made Ham advertisement from August 28, 1941. You've got to love family traditions, taking the ham out for a walk, on Labor Day. She is wearing hot pants and sandals, he left the tie tack at home because it is a holiday. The center of entertainment this Labor Day is an armless singing …

Telegram-Tribune August 20, 1941 front page I am revisiting August 20, 1941 from last week to include this story. A little while back we talked about the upswing of interest in mining as war clouds gathered. Some fresh interesting details, San Luis Obispo County is the oldest and one of the richest chrome producing regions …

August 27, 1941 map of Iran and Iraq invasion routes. One of the most employed headlines in the post 9-11 landscape poses the question, "Why do they hate us?" A column by Pakistani Mohsin Hamid flips the question to "Why do they love us?" He writes that America's Jeffersonian ideals are admired wherever freedom is …

John Heinz, head of the audio-visual department at Cal Poly makes the final selection of slides used in a training film. Cal Poly photo Today one person could do it all with a $500 iPad.Video, audio, artwork, photography, editing and production can all be completed on a workstation about the size of a legal pad. …

Fly gun of 1941. This just in from the bright ideas desk…the fly gun. This is the "you'll shoot your eye out" alternative to harsh chemical sprays. No mention of zombie flies in this article. You don't want to be looking pretty fly around the armed lass in this photo. I can't improve on the …

Telegram-Tribune map of U.S. Navy development in Morro Bay from August 21, 1941 Environmental concerns that would be a story today don't even get a word in this August 21, 1941 map and brief. Morro Bay was slated to become a navy depot and the Feds were planning on dumping a cool million dollars on …

The caption from the May 10, 1956 Centurama edition of the then Telegram-Tribune. "This is what the well dressed policeman was wearing in the 1890′s. He is Robert H. Pruitt. The picture is from John Pruitt."